Crossword clues for devour
devour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devour \De*vour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.]
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To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Some evil beast hath devoured him.
--Gen. xxxvii. 20. -
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him.
--Ezek. vii. 15.I waste my life and do my days devour.
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To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight.
--Dryden.Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. 2 To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Devour is a 2005 horror film directed by David Winkler.
"Devour" is a song recorded and performed by the hard rock band Shinedown. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's third studio album, The Sound of Madness. The track landed online and at multi-format rock radio outlets nationwide on May 5. As has been the case with other new singles by bands such as Disturbed, Theory of a Deadman, and Seether, "Devour" is so far Shinedown's fastest rising single to date, reaching the top five of the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in four weeks. In a No. 1 countdown interview, vocalist Brent Smith said that the single was "a letter to the President," and that it is about Smith's distaste towards George W. Bush. It is their second No. 1 song on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Devour may refer to:
- "Devour", a 2002 song by Disturbed from Believe
- Devour (film), a 2005 film directed by David Winkler
- "Devour" (song), a 2008 single by Shinedown
- "Devour", a 2009 song by Marilyn Manson from The High End of Low
- Devoured (film), a 2012 drama horror thriller film directed by Greg Olliver, starring Marta Milans, Kara Jackson, Bruno Gunn.
- Devour (album), a 2013 album by Dave Hause
- Motorola Devour, an Android-based smartphone produced by Motorola for Verizon Wireless
Devour is the second solo album from Dave Hause of The Loved Ones. It is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2013 by Rise Records.
The album was recorded at Grandmaster Recorders from mid-February to mid-March of 2013. Musicians include bassist Bob Thomson of Big Drill Car, drummer David Hidalgo Jr. of Social Distortion and keyboardist Bo Koster of My Morning Jacket. The album also features appearances by Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and The Watson Twins.
The first song premiered from the album was "We Could Be Kings", which was released for streaming at RollingStone.com on July 12, 2013. The second song available for streaming was "The Shine", which was released on August 26, 2013.
Usage examples of "devour".
Diana, chagrined that Actaeon has seen her naked, transforms the hunter into a stag, who is then devoured by his own dogs.
She had been Agave, she had torn Pentheus and, in a metaphysical completion of the Dionysiac rite, she had devoured him.
Dione watched him as he devoured the breakfast that Alberta had prepared.
And once drawn to her, Georgia was utterly convinced they would remain to devour her backlist in its entirety.
I gave him a slice of Battenberg, which he dropped in his eagerness to devour it.
I was seated along the side of the road, leaning against a tree, devouring some simple breadstuffs I had in my pack.
Fry and his father devoured the cobia while his mother sipped crab bisque.
He was a tiny man, under five feet, and though suffering the continuing ills of the hypochondriac he had translated all of Plato and become a living dictionary of ancient philosophies by translating the body of Egyptian wisdom before devouring the work of the sages from Aristotle through the Alexandrians, Confucianists, Zoroastrians.
When the T cells reach your heart, Coxsackie jumps out and starts devouring healthy heart cells.
For the first time in their long history, the fiercely independent lords of High Hallack had united in common cause, for they had very quickly learned that if they did not, the individual Dales would be swept away one at a time until all had been devoured.
His vision of war dogs seemed to be of vicious animals, their jaws hanging open, and fangs exposed, and ready to bayonet and devour a treacherous enemy.
For, as the cat was called by Nature to be an ornithophage, so was Francis called by his own nature hungrily to devour such knowledge as could be taught in those days, and, because there were no schools but the monastic schools, he had donned the habit first of a postulant, later of a novice.
Voltaire, who devoured the Bible, and ridiculed our dogmas, doubts, and after having made proselytes to impiety, is not ashamed, being reduced to the extremity of life, to ask for the sacraments, and to cover his body with more relics than St.
As Sisipyla followed, watching her own feet in their sandals going one before the other, she thought about the terrible lion, and its even more terrible mother Echidna, daughter of Ge and Tartarus, half nymph, half speckled snake, who had lived in a cave in Arcadia, from which she rushed hissing out to seize and devour passers-by.
Australians learned the same lesson in 1932, when troops armed with machine guns and artillery attempted to destroy a flock of twenty thousand emus that was devouring Western Australian crops.